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<td class="v">32:1</td>
<td>And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.</td>
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<td class="v">32:2</td>
<td>And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.</td>
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<td class="v">32:3</td>
<td>And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.</td>
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<td class="v">32:4</td>
<td>And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:</td>
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<td class="v">32:5</td>
<td>And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.</td>
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<td class="v">32:6</td>
<td>And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.</td>
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<td class="v">32:7</td>
<td>Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;</td>
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<td class="v">32:8</td>
<td>And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.</td>
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<td class="v">32:9</td>
<td>And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:</td>
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<td class="v">32:10</td>
<td>I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.</td>
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<td class="v">32:11</td>
<td>Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.</td>
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<td class="v">32:12</td>
<td>And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.</td>
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<td class="v">32:13</td>
<td>And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;</td>
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<td class="v">32:14</td>
<td>Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,</td>
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<td class="v">32:15</td>
<td>Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.</td>
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<td class="v">32:16</td>
<td>And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.</td>
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<td class="v">32:17</td>
<td>And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?</td>
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<td class="v">32:18</td>
<td>Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.</td>
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<td class="v">32:19</td>
<td>And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.</td>
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<td class="v">32:20</td>
<td>And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.</td>
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<td class="v">32:21</td>
<td>So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.</td>
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<td class="v">32:22</td>
<td>And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.</td>
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<td class="v">32:23</td>
<td>And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.</td>
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<td class="v">32:24</td>
<td>And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.</td>
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<td class="v">32:25</td>
<td>And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.</td>
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<td class="v">32:26</td>
<td>And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.</td>
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<td class="v">32:27</td>
<td>And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.</td>
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<td class="v">32:28</td>
<td>And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.</td>
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<td class="v">32:29</td>
<td>And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.</td>
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<td class="v">32:30</td>
<td>And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.</td>
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<td class="v">32:31</td>
<td>And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.</td>
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<td class="v">32:32</td>
<td>Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.</td>
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